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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7220932 | Work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting faulty bottles A work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting bottles considered faulty, includes a selecting disc, having a vertical axis and featuring radial seats made on its edge, for holding, in cooperation with vacuum ducts, bottles. A first track, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 6863172 | Packet supply unit and method A unit for supplying packets of cigarettes has a first and a second belt conveyor, which respectively define a first and a second path having a common portion; and a routing device extending about the first and second belt conveyor at the common portion, and coopera... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6808059 | Apparatus for removing rod-like articles A removing apparatus for rod-like articles comprises a removing drum (24) as part of a transport path for the articles such as cigarettes, double filter cigarettes and filter cigarettes in a filter cigarette manufacturing machine, and many transport grooves (... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6494063 | Apparatus for pushing hollow glass articles onto a conveyor belt The apparatus serves for pushing at least one of two hollow glass articles from a dead plate of a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt. A pusher serves for this purpose, and includes a base portion and, for each glass article which is to be pushed, ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6467609 | Can transfer rotating plate system The output end of a very high speed continuous motion cylindrical can decorator is provided with unloading apparatus in the form of a continuously moving closed loop suction belt supplied by first and second continuously rotating, parallel axis, suction a... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6347709 | Method and apparatus for transferring packing units A method of transferring packing units from a receiving station to a stack building station includes the steps of delivering the packing units to the receiving station in a plurality of rows and in a plurality of tracks in a conveying direction, accepting... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6311824 | Rotatable pick-up device The invention relates to a rotatable gripper device (1) for picking up and rotating products which are supplied on a conveyor belt. The device according to the invention comprises a gripper head (2, 3) which can rotate about a vertical central shaft (4) a... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6206169 | Supply line for supplying parallelepiped products to a user machine A supply line for supplying parallelepiped products to a user machine, whereby the products are fed to the user machine by a conveyor which feeds the products along a horizontal path and through a transfer station where a transfer unit removes the product... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5921375 | Transfer device and assembly of transfer devices The invention relates to a device for transferring products from a product supply belt to a product discharge belt, wherein the transporting direction of the product discharge belt lies at an angle relative to the transporting direction of the product sup... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5450939 | Apparatus and method for transferring objects An apparatus (10) for sorting and transferring an object (1), such as wrapped photographic film, between two or more positions has a object holder (12) having a means for grasping and releaseably mounting the object (1) thereto. The object holder (12) is ... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5244075 | Cigarette ejecting apparatus of a cigarette packaging apparatus A piling machine of a cigarette packaging apparatus comprises a number of transferring drums disposed between the respective aligning drums of the apparatus for aligning a given number of cigarettes in rows and the piling drum for piling rows of cigarette... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5242059 | Method and apparatus for sorting material An apparatus for sorting material conveyed in a product stream and across a substantially level single layer on a conveyor, wherein the conveyor passes beneath an examination device which determines the presence and transverse location of any undesired ma... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5048696 | Conveyed item divider/sorter A conveyed item divider apparatus and method for automatically dividing a mixture of a plurality of first items and a plurality of second items into a first group containing only the first items and a second group containing only the second items. The app... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4874076 | Device for transferring packages Method of and device for transferring packages like bags, blister packs, etc. from a packaging machine to a further-processing mahcine, a box-packing machine for example, wherein a small portion of the packages released by the packaging machine are automa... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4825994 | Apparatus for transporting and removing samples from a stream of cigarettes or the like Apparatus for removing samples from a single-layer stream of cigarettes which move sideways in the peripheral flutes of hollow rotary first and second drum-shaped conveyors has two valving elements which are disposed in the interior of the respective conv... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4760909 | Suction diverter A suction wheel is mounted laterally adjacent a horizontal conveyor and at an elevation slightly thereabove. The suction wheel is movable laterally between that position and an inward position partially overlapping the conveyor. A plurality of peripheral ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4391372 | Vacuum starwheel A vacuum starwheel which provides for a positive vacuum to hold containers, such as bottles, to maintain the bottles in position during transfer by the starwheel, and with the use of a pair of hub members, one rotating relative to the other, and with one ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4362461 | Selective vacuum lifting device A vacuum lifting device having a plurality of chambers, each chamber having an isolating member within to control communication between a common vacuum plenum and a sheet engaging surface. Each isolating member is controllable independent of the presence ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4316565 | Sheet transfer apparatus Apparatus for marshalling glass sheets comprises a conveyor capable of conveying an array of sheets lying in a transverse sheet array across the conveyor to a sheet removal station, transverse conveying means extending transversely above the conveyor and ... | 02/23/1982 |
